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Yesterday, we reviewed the ingredient list for Lush’s American Pie solid body conditioner. Today, let’s take a closer look at those ingredients and how we might create a potential formula for the product. Ingredients: Fair Trade Cocoa Butter (Theobroma Cacao) Murumuru Butter (Astrocaryum Murumuru) Fresh Strawberry Puree (Fragaria Vesca)*, Fresh Orange Puree (Citrus Aurantium Dulcis)...
In the March Q&A, Katy asked, Hello everyone! I’m just getting started out making my own products. My favorite thing right now is the American Pie solid body conditioner by Lush. I was wondering where I would begin to make something similar. The ingredients seem pretty easy until the end of the list. I’m not sure what the...
Before we conclude this series on duplicating Lush’s Shower Smoothies – if you missed it, click here to see the most recent post and the links to the other parts – I wanted to address the ingredient lists you’d find in other products of this nature at Lush.If you were interested in duplicating the African...
So far we’ve reviewed the ingredient list, looked at the suggested usage rates for each ingredient, and created a prototype recipe using the stearic acid/triethanolamine emulsifier . Today, let’s take a look at using Polawax for the emulsifier.We use Polawax (or Natragem EW) at 25% of the oil phase . So if we have 29.1%...
On Monday, we took a look at the ingredient list for Lush’s Ro’s Argan Body Conditioner. On Tuesday, we took a look at the suggested usage rates for each ingredient with an eye to creating a prototype recipe. Today, we’ll take a look at that recipe!We know this is an oil-in-water lotion that is applied...